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Friday, August 18, 2017

High-brow "cli-fi" novel from 2011 set for Hollywood debut in September 2017

As 2017 progresses toward the second half of the year, a new cli-fi movie by Hollywood director WimWenders (a native of Germany) is set to debut in September at a famous film festival in Spain. The movie is titled "Submergence" and it's based on a novel of the same name by Irish author J.M. Ledgard. ﻿Starring the big Scandinavian star of the moment Alicia Vikander.

''Submergence'' also stars James McAvoy, with location shooting across Berlin, Madrid, Toledo and multiple locations in France and Djibouti, according to the Hollywood Reporter﻿. The screenplay is by Erin Dignam.

McAvoy and Vikander play their roles as a hydraulic engineer, James More, and a bio-mathematician, Danielle Flinders, who fall in love in a rural hotel in France. After they depart for dangerous missions, it is revealed that More works for the British Secret Service and is taken hostage in Somalia. A cli-fi thriller, this movie packs a punch, according to those who have seen it, and it joins a list of modern cli-fi movies slowly flooding our awareness of the Anthropocene.